You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

Somebody who knows what they're doing, who has a good track record, they come across as very articulate, bright and looking for a challenge - that's absolutely my kind of hire.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

To move in the forward direction is to be strong and positive enough to bury every negative experience in the past.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.